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Public and Private Trackers

1. Private: Specified Group of Users ONLY

   If you would like to run a tracker that is only accessible to a select group of users:

   1. Set the Default Guest Access Level to 0
   2. Create Individual User Accounts Manually

   With this configuration, only users that you create will have access to your tracker's website. Other people will still be able to use torrents that are tracked by your tracker, but they won't be able to download them from your tracker's website. Torrent files will need to be posted elsewhere, for non-users to download them.

2. Private: Displaying Limited Information

   If you would like to run a tracker that displays limited torrent information, similar to the information shown by the official python tracker, you should modify your tracker's configuration thusly:

   1. Remove all torrent categories
   2. Set the following values to NO (0)
   • Allow Search — ( bnbt_allow_search )
   • Allow Sort — ( bnbt_allow_sort )
   • Allow Comments — ( bnbt_allow_comments )
   • Allow Info Link — ( bnbt_allow_info_link )
   • Show Name — ( show_names )
   • Show File Comments — ( bnbt_show_file_comments )
   • Show Stats — ( bnbt_show_stats )
   3. Set the value of Show Hash to 1 — ( bnbt_show_info_hash )
   4. Add the following line to your stylesheet:
   td.navbar_search { display:none; }
   5. OPTIONAL: Set Show Uploader to NO — ( bnbt_show_uploader )
   6. OPTIONAL: Set Allow Downloads to NO — ( bnbt_allow_torrent_downloads )

   With this configuration, the names of the torrents being tracked will remain unknown to the general public. Your tracker visitors will see something similar to this:

   

   If you did not disable Allow Downloads, it would look like this:

   

3. Public: Open-Use Tracker

   PLEASE NOTE: Using this configuration is not suggested, because it can lead to serious tracker abuse.

   If you would like to run a tracker that DOES NOT REQUIRE the torrent to be uploaded to your tracker for your tracker to begin tracking the torrent:

   1. Remove the values for the Allowed and Upload Directories from your configuration:
   allowed_dir =
bnbt_upload_dir =

   These values appear on the Directories tab of the Configuration Frontend as Allowed Directory and Upload Directory.

   2. Set the following values to NO (0):
   • Allow Search — ( bnbt_allow_search )
   • Allow Sort — ( bnbt_allow_sort )
   • Allow Comments — ( bnbt_allow_comments )
   • Allow Info Link — ( bnbt_allow_info_link )
   • Allow Downloads — ( bnbt_allow_torrent_downloads )
   • Show Name — ( show_names )
   • Show File Comments — ( bnbt_show_file_comments )
   • Show Date Added — ( bnbt_show_added )
   • Show Stats — ( bnbt_show_stats )
   • Show Uploader — ( bnbt_show_uploader )
   3. Set the value of Show Hash to 1 — ( bnbt_show_info_hash )
   4. Add the following line to your stylesheet:
   td.navbar_search { display:none; }

   With this configuration, people will only need to create and start seeding their torrent. They will not have to upload the torrent to the tracker first.